This was the case for Darryl Holton, who chose to die via electric chair. He was executed in 2007, convicted of killing his three sons and a stepdaughter in 1997.

Tennessee asked Fred Leuchter to refurbish its chair 30 years ago. “It looked like it was made for a midget or something,” he said.

On Thursday, David Earl Miller became the second person in the last five weeks to choose death in Tennessee’s electric chair over lethal injection. Miller was executed for the 1981 murder of 23 ...

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Zagorksi was the first man executed in the electric chair in Tennessee since 2007. He had been convicted in April 1983 of murdering two men — robbing them and slitting their throats during a ...

Tennessee's electric chair protocol:How the state plans to kill Edmund Zagorski It is a provocative move — the electric chair hasn't been used in Tennessee in 11 years, and no other state has ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. --A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007. Edmund Zagorski, 63, was put ...

The state last executed an inmate using the electric chair in 2007. Daryl Holton, who had killed his three sons and their half-sister a decade earlier, was put to death with two jolts of electricity.

Georgia, which has not carried out an execution since 1998, recently abolished the use of the electric chair for capital crimes committed after May 1, 2000, substituting lethal injections.

Gruesome Gertie can remain unplugged. State Rep. Joseph Lopinto, R-Metairie, abruptly dropped his proposal Tuesday to bring back the electric chair in Louisiana. He waited until nearly the end of ...

Designed to be more humane than hanging, the first use of the electric chair, at Auburn Prison on Aug. 6, 1890, was described by the Syracuse Standard as "scientific butchery." ...